Sending media, documents, location and contacts

Sharing media, documents, location or contacts

Choose Gallery to select an existing photo or video from your phone. You can tap and hold to select multiple images.

Choose Audio to send existing audio from your phone.

Choose Location to send your location or a nearby place.

Choose Contact to send the information of a contact saved in your phone's address book over WhatsApp.

You can also add captions to photos and videos. Swipe between photos to add captions to each one.

Tap Send.

Note: The maximum allowed document size is 100 MB. In order to send a document from within WhatsApp, the document must be saved locally on your phone. Alternatively, WhatsApp will appear as an option in the share menu of apps that handle documents like Dropbox and Google Drive. When you download a document, it will be automatically saved in your WhatsApp Documents folder: WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp Documents, which can be accessed with a file explorer app.

Forwarding media, documents, locations or contacts

To forward media, documents, locations or contacts from one conversation to another:

Open a chat.

Tap and hold the type of message you wish to forward. You can select multiple messages.

Tap Forward.

Choose the chat you wish to forward the message to.

Tap Send.

When you forward media, documents, locations or contacts, you don't have to upload it again, and therefore it will send faster and use less data. Any forwarded messages that weren't originally sent by you will be displayed with the "Forwarded" label.